Ker Place in Onancock, Accomack County, Eastern Shore Virginia

Ker Place houses Eastern Shore Historical Society museum and offices in a Federal home on two acres of Market Street, Onancock, Accomack County, Virginia.

Ker Place models urban sustainability of historic country-homes

Ker Place acquaints locals and visitors with Eastern Shore Historical Society activities and displays by way of an eighteenth-century Federal home on two landscaped acres (0.81 hectares) with boat shed and parking on downtown Onancock’s Market Street in Accomack County, Eastern Shore Virginia. It belongs on lists of Commonwealth landmarks and national places with historic sites to see and modern things to do through:

• attaching a two-story house to a one-story colonnade -- albeit subsequently altered into a two-story wing -- and an outside kitchen -- albeit subsequently removed; • not building first a one-and-a-half-story little house.

Onancock Creek stretches inland for about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) and cups downtown Onancock with a curved E shape formed by the creek's West Branch and Central Branch with Titlow Creek.

Ker Place nurtures preservationism in original entry ports

Onancock designates the tribe ruled by King Ekeeks, as:

Bay acquaintance of Captain John Smith (1580? - 1631);

grain trader to Jamestown’s first settlers.

It enjoys uniqueness with Norfolk as the Commonwealth’s extant original 50-acre (20.23-hectare) entry ports and market towns mandated by the 1680 Virginia Act of Cohabitation for each of 19 colonial settlements. It finds its place in seventeenth-century grain- and tobacco-trading and storehouse- and wharf-building as Port Scarborough, in honor of Edmund Scarborough (1617 – 1671), as:

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